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Winter Olympic Sports

US finishes 5th in Olympic luge team relay

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Germany, Austria, Italy. They were the three best luge nations at the Milan Cortina Olympics, and very fittingly, they were the three best teams in the team relay on Thursday night, Feb. 12. Germany is now 4-for-4 in the team event in the Olympic program, ...

Brit Matt Weston gets 1st Olympic skeleton gold medal

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Matt Weston doesn’t always win. It only seems that way. And at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the 28-year-old slider from Britain left no doubt — he’s the best skeleton racer in the world. Capping a four-year run that featured one remarkable finish after ...

An ‘ice bath from the ground up’

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Frank Del Duca and Josh Williamson quickly began icing down after their first two runs of the two-man bobsled event at the Milan Cortina Games. It was not in a recommended fashion. They didn’t even use ice. The American bobsledders — who are fourth at ...

Snowboarder Su Yiming delivers China’s 1st gold of Winter Olympics

LIVIGNO, Italy — Su Yiming sat in the snow at the bottom of the snowboarding course, tears rolling down his cheeks. So close to winning China its first gold at the Milan Cortina Games, he still had a long wait to endure. Luckily for Su, one by one his rivals either fell or came up short of ...

For US snowboarder, Olympic bronze is the prize after near-death journey

LIVIGNO, Italy — Nobody could blame the doctors for telling 13-year-old Jake Canter he should never step on a snowboard again. Nobody could blame 22-year-old Jake Canter for ignoring them. Nine years after enduring a traumatic brain injury, the result of getting kicked in the head in a ...

US men find silver lining at Olympic cross-country skiing, return to podium

TESERO, Italy — Fresh off ending a 50year medal drought in men’s cross-country skiing, American Ben Ogden proved Wednesday, Feb. 18 it was no fluke by winning a second silver. Teaming up with Gus Schumacher, the U.S. men even gave runaway favorites Norway some real competition and held ...